The Perceptionist Donald Trump Stands By “Islam Hates Us”

In yet another round of controversial remarks, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said he thinks “Islam hates us” and asserted that those having hatred against the US cannot be allowed to enter the country.

“I mean a lot of them. I mean a lot of them,” Trump repeated, refusing to back down.

Marco Rubio, who hopes to win his home state of Florida next Tuesday and remain in the race, quickly hit back on Trump’s answer.

“I know that’s a lot of people find appeal in the things Donald says. The problem is, presidents can’t just say anything they want. It has consequences here and around the world.”

He then relayed a narrative about a family of Christian missionaries he knew in Bangladesh, a predominantly-Muslim country, and that Trump’s words had consequences.

“They tell me today they have a hostile environment because the news is coming out that in America leading political figures are saying that America doesn’t like Muslims. This is a real impact.”

“Marco talks about consequences,” Trump retorted.

“Well, we’ve had a lot of consequences, including airplanes flying into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and could have been the White House.”

Trump, meanwhile, when asked why he wanted to expand intelligence laws in order to target the families of people suspected of terrorism, ratcheted up his rhetoric just as far as it could go.

“We have a law that doesn’t allow right now waterboarding. [ISIS] have no laws, no rules, no regulations. They chop off heads, They drown 40, 50, 60 people at a time in big steel cages, pull them up an hour later, everyone dead, and we’re working on a different set of parameters,” Trump said, his calm, presidential demeanor slipping away.

“We better expand our laws or we’re being a bunch of suckers and they are laughing at us.”